price-db storage via BackEnd?

Derek Atkins warlord@MIT.EDU
21 May 2001 15:34:35 -0400


Agreed.

I think we should carefully consider the separation of
"program/ui configuration" and data configuration, for
exactly the reasons you specify.  However, what is
considered "application/program/ui configuration", and
what is "data configuration"?  I don't know the answer.

-derek

Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu> writes:

> Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU> writes:
> 
> > Sigh..  Configurating is always a "hard" thing.
> > 
> > I suppose we might want to re-examine what we consider "application
> > configuration" and what we consider "gnc(file) meta-data".
> 
> Yep.  I tend to think that an awful lot of the config data belongs in
> the data store.  Delete the "file" and the config data goes with it.
> 
> Also, if we do eventually have a multi-user, remote access,
> user-travelling-from-machine-to-machine, setup, then storing most of
> the config data in the data store probably makes more sense.
> 
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